STENDHAL One of the most original and complex French writers of the first half of the century, chiefly known for his works of fiction. His finest novels are Le Rouge et le noir and La Chartreuse de Parme
Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Charles Baudelaire, 1878 by Etienne Carjat. Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.